The fourth episode of Confessions: Animal Hoarding continued profiling and attempting to help people who hoard animals, and the effects it has on not only their life, but those around them. This episode featured Lauren and Jack.

Worried that little Jimmy's been playing with his sister's dollies? Notice a certain limpness in Bobby's wrists? Well nip that problem in the bud by sending him to karate school. That'll cure Nanciness! So say these karate school ads, anyway.

Cartoonist Cathy Guisewite announced her comic strip "Cathy" is ending after 34 years of syndication. To celebrate the life of the neurotic woman that could, here's the opening to the 1987 animated special based off the comic.

Bogus drug scares are a mainstay of mainstream media reporting and reactionary parenting. A roundup of the latest in ludicrous drug trends—and look back at how bogus substances have stirred panic for more than a century now—below.

In your evasive Thursday media column: the WSJ is becoming more like your little hometown paper, Mediaite doesn't justify itself to anyone, an alt-weekly judgment upheld, and Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck have a mystifying chat.

Rihanna's new neck tattoo says "rebelle fleur," the French words for "rebellious" and "flower." Unfortunately, adjectives usually follow the noun in French, so "rebelle fleur" is actually just gibberish. Click to enlarge.

Absolut Vodka commissioned Zach to make an ad for their ongoing artist series. He invited Tim and Eric to help him, and the result is a randomly funny ad sketch that barely mentions vodka.

Jurors in Rod Blagojevich's trial have only decided 2 of 24 counts and seem... frenzied.

Advertisers and TV producers are sharpening their claws in anticipation of a new cash machine: Will sassy steward Steven Slater do endorsements? Which ones? A TV show? Great minds weigh in on how to exploit our new hero for profit.

Police have identified the serial killer suspect arrested on a plane yesterday as Elias Abeulazam.

The recent Google deal that may end net neutrality got us thinking about Sandra Bullock's classic 1995 thriller, The Net. Specifically, what would a trailer for The Net look like if it was made today? We decided to find out.

In April we brought you the heartbreaking story of Aaron Jamison, a young man with terminal cancer who was selling advertising space on his cremation urns. Readers stepped up to help. We asked Aaron for an update; his note, below.

Congress has passed a $600 million border security bill, sending additional troops and weapons and death planes to defeat the Mexican Menace. So, now that they've gotten their "war stuff," will Republicans work with Democrats on comprehensive immigration reform? Heh.

A new trailer for Paul Scheer's NTSF:SD:SUV introduced some new members of the team. Karate twins, a ghost whisperer, a 1970's police detective (brought in for one day), and other interesting characters join Paul for one last mission.

Charles Mudede, a blogger for the The Stranger, the alternative weekly that serves cutesy raintown Seattle, wrote a post today about people who were robbed by a fraud i-banker and were understandably upset about it. And his post is insane?

Oyez! Oyez! Oyez! All persons having interest in Top Chef Season 7 DC, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the season is now screening. God save nothing. It's all screwed!

Alexandra Lebenthal, CEO of financial firm Lebenthal & Co., just published her first novel, The Recessionistas, about Wall Street elites coping with the great economic downturn. Let's meet John Cutter, the sort of hedge fund jerk we love to hate.

Chuck Patterson was surfing off the coast of San Clemente, California when he spotted two Great White Sharks following him. Naturally, Patterson decides to go after them and see what they're up to.

This week everyone's spirits were crushed when we found out that the girl who had quit via embarassing dry-erase board messages was a hoax. Here she talks about how holding up rectangles and making zany faces might give her a career.

The high school years have always been fraught with social peril, and middle school is a time many remember for instilling a lifelong sense of mortifying awkwardness. Fine, but what about toddlers? Can we give them an inferiority complex, too?